Who are the least talented actors who are successful?

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In your opinion.

I’ll start.

The Rock
Gal Gadot
Mark Whalberg
Channing Tatum

Ben affleck

Alan Rickman
Alun Armstrong
Warren Clarke
Michael Kitchen (the contrast between the make-your-skin-crawl criminals he played in Dalziel and Pascoe and Pie in the Sky and the wonderful, completely decent Foyle in Foyle's war showed just how good he is imo)

Dennis waterman was a bit meh

Nicola walker is instantly recognisable on radio

Rob Brydon is really talented IMO.

Keira Knightly

High Grant, also a revelation! in Florence Foster Jenkins - when he assures Florence (Meryl Streep) ‘we ARE a family’ how can an actors voice be filled with such kindness.

Hugh Grant was brilliant in that enjoyable film.

Daniel Radcliffe, and whoever said Olivia Coleman I disagree - she is fantastic!

He always played Dennis Waterman, didn't he? I confess my knowledge of him is limited to Minder and New Tricks. I thoroughly enjoyed that (haven't seen Minder for decades) but wouldn't say he was a great actor in it.

This is just acting for a lot of actors. They are just themselves all the time. Much as I love him, Michael Cane for example only ever played himself, and that worked really well for him.

Same with Danny Dyer. While I don't consider him one of the greats. He's great at what he does, the lovable cockney, and he's done pretty well at it.

Most of the people on this thread calling out crap actors are basically just saying they just don't like a particular genre of film.

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He did sing the feem toones though 😂

Feel that people are being very unfair to Keira Knightley and Kristen Stewart. Basing it probably on Kiera's 18 year old performance in Love Actually and Kristen's performance in The Twilight Films. I think Kiera was pretty good in Bend it like Beckham, Atonement and Never let me go. Likewise Kristen Stewart was really good in Still Alice. Both actors I think unfairly typecast when they were very young. And both very good actresses in reality.

Michael Caine was good in Sleuth though

Don’t be silly. He can do physical comedy, has great comic timing and delivery and can make camera tricks look natural. He also made the studio audience cry during the filming of a poignant scene in Only Fools and Horses, in which he was on his own and did not speak.

There are some actors I just never buy as the character, such as Tom Hanks, Leonardo Di Caprio and - after he got "Hollywood" famous - Ewan McGregor. He used to be able to act, I don't know what happened there. But I'll be watching them thinking "I hope Leonardo's not going to get scammed / Tom Hanks needs to hurry up and get on the train / what's Ewan trying to express there? Rather than whatever character they are.

I am also in the I Know He Can't Act But... camp for team Keanu. He was great in My Own Private Idaho but that called for stilted and stylised acting. I think.
I read an interesting remark about who got all the parts River Pheonix would have had if he'd been around and I think Leonardo was a candidate. Such a loss.

Bill Nighy said in an interview he was delighted when he got type cast because it saved him such a lot of hassle and I commend him, because he does it so well.

There is an actor called Patrick Baladi who pops up in loads of stuff and is sooooo limited it's baffling why he keeps being cast. But he's not given massive leading roles so it doesn't annoy me. Whereas Suranne Jones and Sarah Lancashire were great in Corrie but now I actively avoid. They make me twitchy and on edge.

Emma Watson really marred Little Women. What were they thinking casting her alongside actually good actresses? Really magnified her limitations.

Troof! 😆😆😆

But essentially just playing Russell Brand. Although the character, a mockney Britpop type, wasn't exactly a stretch for him.
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I agree, she was also brilliant as the evil step mother in flea bag! Brilliant character and she played it superbly.

For me it’s just that she seems like she wants the screen time and is a comedian not an actor on some level

Martin Freeman? Have you seen him in The Responder?

Hugh Grant? Have you seen him in A Very English Scandal?

Anyone in a soap? Have you ever seen Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley?

yes they are or they are going by looks and personality they don’t like and such,

I love Groundhog Day and Scrooge’s and most of the Wes what his name movies that bill Murray is in.

in the case of Bill Murray he has no range, neither does Danny dyer. So they are limited in acting if they have no range.
I remember reading an interview with Michael Caine and he admitted he just went on set and did what he was told, no study of the craft, same with Jack Nicholson I believe, although JN is phenomenal in a lot of things eg One flew over the cuckoos nest but then he was so over melodramatic in the departed in his death scene what a ham, such a shame runnier that scene.

He’s actually brilliant in some things. Never got Emma though.

I agree, maybe that’s why they haven’t gone on to huge success as adults? They’ve done films and they’re working but it’s like directors have realised they’re actually a bit shit. I find the bad acting in Harry Potter distracting.

I think the Rock and Keanu Reeves have a lot of charisma on screen which is secondary to their acting ability. It doesn't really matter whether they can act or not.